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[Figure: NATVRAL MAGICK: in xx Bookes by IOHN BAPTIST PORTA a Neopolitane: — R. Gaywood fecit Lond: 1658 — I. BAPT: PORTA — Fire: Ayre: Art: Nature: Earth:Water:]

NATURAL MAGICK BY John Baptista Porta, A NEAPOLITANE: IN TWENTY BOOKS:

• 1 Of the Causes of Wonderful things.
• 2 Of the Generation of Animals.
• 3 Of the Production of new Plants.
• 4 Of increasing Houshold-Stuff.
• 5 Of changing Metals.
• 6 Of counterfeiting Gold.
• 7 Of the Wonders of the Load-stone.
• 8 Of strange Cures.
• 9 Of Beautifying Women.
• 10 Of Distillation.
• 11 Of Perfuming.
• 12 Of Artificial Fires.
• 13 Of Tempering Steel.
• 14 Of Cookery.
• 15 Of Fishing, Fowling, Hunting, &c.
• 16 Of Invisible Writing.
• 17 Of Strange Glasses.
• 18 Of Statick Experiments.
• 19 Of Pneumatick Experiments.
• 20 Of the Chaos.

Wherein are set forth All the RICHES and DELIGHTS Of the NATURAL SCIENCES.

LONDON, Printed for Thomas Young, and Samuel Speed; and are to be sold at the three Pigeons, and at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1658.